I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

Amalek exploits spiritual weakness; Parashat Zachor calls on us to strengthen our identity and faith in every generation.

Just as space aliens might benefit from a society rooted in Jewish ideals, so too might humans benefit from the encounter ...

American Jews have always been optimists about antisemitism. From the very beginning, our country has embraced Jews; George Washington, shortly after assuming the presidency, wrote a letter to the ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...

During Korban Pesach, the houses themselves assumed the character of a “private Mizbeach" (see Pesachim 96a). The Targum Yonatan (Shmot 19:4) even brings a midrash that Am Yisrael were carried to the ...

Missed Mitzvos and Sudden Accountability. Our Gemara on Amud Aleph relates an interlude in which an angel rebuked Rav Ketina for wearing a garment that was ex ...

As friends, relatives and even colleagues dive headlong into our AI future, I’ve been stuck nervously on the platform’s edge.

Parashat Mishpatim shows how lofty spiritual experiences can become daily living. After the thunder and awe of Sinai in last week’s parasha, the Torah now turns to the details of life: laws of justice ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Hundreds of rabbis, cantors and other Jewish demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday (Feb. 11) to voice opposition ...

We began this week with a strong snowstorm reminding us we are still in the heart of winter. Not a time to think about trees budding, but the Jewish calendar says differently. The New Year of Trees ...

FOREST HILLS, Queens (WABC) -- A 32-year-old man was arrested after a rabbi was attacked on Tuesday afternoon in Queens. Police say the victim was punched in his chest and face at Queens Boulevard and ...